Opera 10.0 Beta 2 (Build 1642) Change Log

* Opera Turbo warning icon * Warning and advice about why dictionaries.xml file sometimes is missing from Auto update * A "Synchronize Opera" button in the Speed Dial page * Tab icons (inverted) for panels viewed as tabs * An Open Folder menu item to the file browse control * Multiple-server support for Auto Update * A left-click context menu to the Opera Turbo button * New icons for DOM Console, Who is, Send File, Spell Check, Authormode, and Usermode * A context menu option to reload images in high quality * Widget version support * Password Manager with context-menu support

Improvements

* Updated opera:x, error and fraud page interfaces * Preinstalled dictionaries now have full name in the "Choose default language" page in the wizard * Allowed Speed Dial to have a custom favicon * Now possible to set a new spell UI session without a pop-up menu * Adjusted the progress spinner on thumbnails not to overlap other tabs when tabs are small * Updated the ID for the Widget logo icon used in installation wizard * Implemented a progressive disclosure control on "Report a site problem" dialog box * All submenus are now given icons from the skin * Shadows on active tabs are now less harsh * Implemented new Dialog Toggle icons and revised the Mail icons * Swapped the Send and Do Not Send send buttons in error-report dialog box * Adjusted the position of the menu button menu * Updated dialog images * Allowed for addition of extra line padding in the Widgets panel * Windowless Silverlight no longer disappears when using context menu * Pressing Enter to select an item in a dropdown box no longer submits a form * Enabled tab thumbnails check box by default in Customize dialog box; if selected forces "wrapping off" * Updated Check, Send and Check/Send icons * Updated Search icon * Notification now shown when Opera Turbo servers are busy * Improvements to hover state on tabs (better contrast) and tabs on the side * Panels viewed as Tabs now have their own favicon and thumbnail image * Removed text shadow on buttons and its influence on Web buttons * Images appended after page load will now display until "screen refresh" * Updated appearance of standard-skin dialog boxes * Applied a small tweak to the background of the standard-skin close buttons * Several tweaks made to the Windows native skin * Windows Media Player plug-in is now recognized on Win 9x operating systems * Initated work on Windows native skin: panels, thumbnail tabs, and normal tabs * Images to be used as desktop background are only saved in the user's profile pictures folder * If the menu bar is hidden, the button menu now shows on alt UP instead of alt DOWN to be consistant with other applications using this * Opera now automatically adds itself to exceptions in Windows firewall

* Text overlaps in enhanced tabs * Aborting the printing of a Web page * Windows Media Player not painting when going back/forward and occasionally on first load * Login dialogs corrupting on startup * MultiEdit fields being spellchecked if the spell checker is turned on without focus * Files with spaces not opening after download * Editing file/folder chooser boxes by hand * Automatic Opera Turbo mode not being reflected in the status field * Aqua skin Progress Bar display * Translated strings in Romanian not fitting the error-report and Appearance dialog boxes * Some UI buttons enlarging on focus * Tiled background in Speed Dial not being remembered * Panel header text becoming unbolded when customized * Internet-to-Intranet override polishing * Background image change not repainting a new area * Setting Opera Turbo through the Details dialog box * Activate Next Tab not working when tabs are launched in the background via control-shift-click * Leaks in the error-logging dialog box * Closing tabs while a tooltip is rendering * Issue with Trash can being dragged to the widgets area in Widgets panel * Background color of alternate rows disappearing in a list * Opera continuously opening tabs if choosing "Opera Internet Browser" and "Remember choice" in the BitTorrent Client Selection dialog o BT download dialog box now inherits most of the functionality from the download dialog, including the Save functionality * Progress Bar not always disappearing after a page has finished loading * Creating a search when right clicking on a search text field * Yahoo! mediaplayer in learnenglish.de * Spatial navigation on the Yahoo! frontpage * Spell checker occasionally stopped working when immediately pressing Del and Space * Saving a picture that has not been fully downloaded * Uninstalling a dictionary * Spell checker occasionally stops working after correcting a word * Spacing between Search and the Address fields * Incorrect escaping/unescaping of characters in WebserverRequest.uri * Session not being saved when closing Opera * Creation of Speed Dial duplicates when merging * "Go" button not taking new search field into account * Downloading a new .torrent file with Opera Turbo enabled * The Wikipedia Cortado Java Theora player working in Opera 10 * Posting loading/posting of links on a wall at Facebook * An issue with TinyMCE and Opera Dragonfly * Keyboard focus not showing in the Opera user interface * SVG background images disappearing on hover * Inability use a folder nickname as home page * Error dialog during Auto update when selecting the current limited user in the Run As dialog box using a limited account on WinXP * Dark background image in the Windows native: text in the Speed Dial search field * Windows native skin drop-down listbox missing its down arrows * Switching to English when auto updating * Problem with the nytimes.com page while closing Opera * ShellExecuteEx error dialog when cancelling the UAC/User Access Control dialog * A menu coming up only if Alt was pressed, and not Alt + something or Alt Gr * System-wide settings not being read * /settings command-line flag not being functional * Display of enhanced tab thumbnails when page uses bitmap fonts * Wrong name being listed for Azureus in the BitTorrent Client Selection dialog box * Hiding the menu button menu with Alt when opened with a mouse click

Mail, News, Chat

Added

* A dialog to warn about the mail database consistency check * An account preference to determine if the content transfer restriction is set to 8 bit or 7 bit * Several icons to the Compose menu * New icons for setting status in a chat window

Improvements

* Lightened the color of the Page Bar: icons now working on all toolbars, panel color enhanced for better differentiation * Changed several icons in the Tools menu to colored versions that already exist * Mail-header buttons no longer overlap the bottom of the toolbar * Improvements made to HTML e-mail composition * Clicking on a new message notification now trying: 1. to find a window where the message is visible 2. to open unread if it is visible there 3. to open the account view if it is not visible there

Fixed

* Double-clicking a note to insert into mail when replying * Replying to a message and the cursor is invisible * 8 bit not being the default content-transfer encoding * Changing a mail account breaks the automatic encoding selector * Opera Mail welcome message encoding and other strings * Reopening a HTML draft with "prefer plain text" and HTML source shows in compose window * Pasting a message and the paste buffer is cleared * An old draft being shown on reopening * HTML keyboard shortcuts working in plain text mode * Mail client selection dialog not being displayed on first mailto click after an upgrade * Chat connection status for multiple accounts * Adding a large attachment to a message prevents e-mail composition * Plain text e-mail composing * Setting "Open with other application" to "Opera" for mailto * Printing mail which resulted in an empty page * Doing "Synchronization" on POP3 mail check * Importing mail stops when files are open * Disabling spell checker in multiline edit boxes causing a shut down * Title in IRC channels equalling the title shown in the app window title bar * Ability to paste into inline find in mail view * Decoding error when writing an HTML mail with a non-ASCII character * Text not fitting in several dialog boxes when switching to the Romanian language * Signature not changing when changing an account * Links opened from mail and newsfeeds not loading when focusing on another mail/feed entry

Display and scripting

Added

* An Open Folder menu item to the file browse control

Improvements

* Web fonts loaded in memory and the font name retrieved * FormatBlock now correctly affects ancestors of the contentEditable element * browser.js can now be disabled when doing auto update * DOMContentLoaded now fires when traversing history * Support for getting localized strings from JavaScript * Max values now set for the automatic memory cache

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